Telegram has begun rolling out its native Gram Wallet inside the messaging app, moving a new crypto wallet architecture directly into a platform serving more than one billion users.
The Gram Wallet rollout started with a select group on August 31 and is scheduled to expand across Telegram’s billion-plus user base over the next couple of weeks. The launch follows Telegram’s July plan to bring a native Gram wallet into every version of its app.
TON Validators Approve Shared Wallet Contract
The wallet runs through a TON smart contract whose core bytecode sits inside the blockchain’s network configuration rather than being independently embedded into every individual wallet.
TON validators approved the tg-wallet-v1 contract for inclusion under network configuration slot -123. Future wallet revisions can therefore be approved through validator voting and applied across deployed wallets without requiring users to migrate balances into new wallet contracts.
Each deployed account uses a small immutable contract that points to the shared wallet logic. Signed requests are authenticated against a stored public key, while the architecture supports signing-key rotation, including a transition from Telegram-controlled access to user-controlled keys.
The contract also supports bulk transfers of up to 255 messages, gasless transaction flows and future wallet upgrades without replacing the account address.
Gram Wallet Moves Crypto Into Telegram’s Core App
Telegram first announced the wallet in July as what Pavel Durov called the largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet to date. The original plan targeted instant zero-fee transactions for more than one billion users through a wallet built directly into Telegram rather than relying solely on separate bots or mini apps.
Telegram already supports crypto through other wallet products and TON-based applications, but the new Gram Wallet places the functionality closer to the messaging client’s core infrastructure.
The rollout also follows the June Toncoin-to-Gram rebrand, which changed the network’s native currency name while keeping The Open Network, or TON, as the blockchain itself.
Rollout Expands Over the Next Two Weeks
Gram Wallet arrives after a series of TON infrastructure upgrades aimed at handling heavier transaction loads. TON activated new collator infrastructure in August and increased validator-side capacity ahead of the wallet deployment.
The wallet contract can be upgraded collectively through validator-approved changes while individual wallet addresses and balances remain in place. That structure is intended to let Telegram add wallet functionality without forcing mass migrations as the product develops.
Access remained limited to the initial user group on August 31. Telegram plans to extend Gram Wallet across its billion-plus users over the next couple of weeks, placing the wider rollout in the first half of September.
